All knots that lovers tieAre tied to sever.Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill his mouth with mould.

There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.